Fate’s Gift
The film is based on a REAL story. The characters are not FICTIONAL.
The show follows the story of modern women whose lives become intricately interlaced.
Marina Rakitina (Irina Lachina), a bright personality and a famous television reporter, leaves her husband, a popular actor Oleg Klyuchevsky (Aleksandr Lazarev). In a couple of weeks an accident occurs; Oleg falls off a set decoration during a play and slips into a coma. Press and TV announcements blame Marina for the accident and turn her life into hell. In the hospital she meets neurological surgeon Sasha (Sergei Gorobchenko) and falls in love with him…
Katya Shmeleva (Maria Poroshina), a single woman absolutely unadapted to life, works as a fine art expert at a poverty-stricken museum. On her father's funeral day she picks up a beaten and bleeding hobo Grisha (Nikolai Dobrynin) at a junkyard. Grisha is somehow connected with what has happened to Oleg Klyuchevsky. After that accident Grisha who used to be a nondrinker went on his first bender. Katya realizes that she is the only person who is able to help Grisha to get back to normal life.
Katya’s boss and friend Yulya Kondrashova (Yekaterina Rednikova) is a strong woman with her fantasies and illusions long forgotten after her first boyfriend Sergei Sinitsyn (Konstantin Yushkevich) married her men-crazy neighbor woman. Yulya is quite satisfied with her current relationship with a young and handsome stripper. After fifteen years, Sergei and Yulya meet again.
Each heroine will have to make every effort so that all the trials would turn into a gift of fate.
Cast: Maria Poroshina (“Day Watch / Dnevnoi dozor”), Nikolay Dobrynin, Yekaterina Rednikova, Irina Lachina, Aleksandr Lazarev Jr. (“Admiral”, “Idiot”), Sergei Gorobchenko (“The First After God / Pervyi posle Boga”, “The Karamazovs / Bratya Karamazovi”, “Bummer”), Konstantin Yushkevich
Produced by: Yuri Sapronov, Andrei Smirnov
Executive producers: Andrei Kretov, Rinat Yakupov
Creative producer: Abai Karpykov
Directed by: Alexander Karpilovsky (TEFI Award (Russian National Television Awards for professional achievement in television broadcasting) 2008 for the Best Television Movie “Snow Angel”)
Director of photography: Igor Yakimov
Production designer: Vladislav Ogay
Makeup artist: Oksana Tolmacheva
Costume designer: Larisa Lebedeva
Casting director: Ekaterina Struchkova
Sound engineer: Denis Korzhov
Genre: Urban drama with elements of a detective story
Episodes: 20
Production: "Russian World Studios"
